On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 08:53:03AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
This seems to be a problem with the serial console driver in the kernel.
What images are you using?
from ftp.debian.org:
Try the images here:
http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sparc-folks/disks-sparc/current/
tried: http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sparc-folks/disks-sparc/current/sparc64/tftpboot.img
1: booting with a simple 'boot net'
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ok boot net
Boot device: /pci@8,700000/network@5,1: File and args:
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
535400
Remapping the kernel... done.
Booting Linux...
UGH: property for SUNW,lomv was 24, need < 1
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as for the last line, I found the following URL:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2003/debian-sparc-200302/msg00034.html
2: booting with 'boot net linux -p'
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ok boot net linux -p
Boot device: /pci@8,700000/network@5,1: File and args: linux -p
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
535400
PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 4.2.4 2001/06/13 10:10
<4>Linux version 2.4.21 (root@blimpo) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Debian)) #1 Sat Nov 29 15:40:07 EST 2003
<4>ARCH: SUN4U
Linux version 2.4.21 (root@blimpo) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Debian)) #1 Sat Nov 29 15:40:07 EST 2003
<4>ARCH: SUN4U
ARCH: SUN4U
Ethernet address: 00:03:ba:0f:6c:fb
Remapping the kernel... done.
On node 0 totalpages: 195776
zone(0): 196447 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Booting Linux...
Found CPU 0 (node=f006fb30,mid=0)
Found 1 CPU prom device tree node(s).
Kernel command line: linux -p
Calibrating delay loop... 499.71 BogoMIPS
Memory: 1547720k available (2504k kernel code, 576k data, 184k init) [fffff80000000000,000000005febe000]
Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 4194304 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 2097152 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 8192 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 1048576 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 2097152 bytes)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: Probing for controllers.
SCHIZO0 PBMB: ver[4:0], portid 8, cregs[40004400000] pregs[40004700000]
SCHIZO0 PBMB: PCI CFG[7ffee000000] IO[7ffef000000] MEM[7fe00000000]
SCHIZO0 PBMA: ver[4:0], portid 8, cregs[40004400000] pregs[40004600000]
SCHIZO0 PBMA: PCI CFG[7ffec000000] IO[7ffed000000] MEM[7fd00000000]
PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ 5] map[0] to INO[1d]
PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ 5] map[0] to INO[1f]
PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ 6] map[0] to INO[18]
PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ 6] map[0] to INO[19]
PCI0(PBMB): Bus running at 33MHz
PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 1] slot[ 4] map[0] to INO[04]
PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 2] slot[ 0] map[1] to INO[01]
PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 2] slot[ 1] map[1] to INO[02]
PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 2] slot[ 2] map[1] to INO[03]
PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 2] slot[ 3] map[1] to INO[00]
PCI0(PBMA): Bus running at 66MHz
ebus0: [flashprom] [bbc] [power] [i2c -> (dimm-fru) (dimm-fru) (dimm-fru) (dimm-fru) (dimm-fru) (dimm-fru) (dimm-fru) (1
<0>Kernel panic: fill_ebus_child
Press L1-A to return to the boot prom
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hope this tells you more than it does to me...
thanks for the help,
charlie